We are thrilled to announce that our recent title, Pictures from Paradise, has been picked up for distribution in North America by Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P. / artbook.com). D.A.P. is the world’s top distributor of art books and exhibition catalogues published by leading museums and independent publishers, including MoMA, SFMoMA and the Guggenheim. Robert & Christopher is the first Caribbean publisher to be distributed by this prestigious company, and we’re feeling pretty great that the 18 artists featured in Pictures from Paradise will gain additional exposure from this access to a US market. If you’d like to have a look at D.A.P.’s Spring 2013 catalogue, click here. (You’ll find us on page 100!)
Pictures from Paradise will hit stores in North America in March – check back soon for an updated list of retailers. As part of our distribution deal with D.A.P., the title will also be available via amazon.com from the end of March, so place your advance orders now!
Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. is America’s premier source for books on twentieth century art, photography, design and aesthetic culture. Founded in 1990 in downtown New York at a time when fine and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past two decades D.A.P. has grown into a major international distributor of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world’s most respected publishers, museums and cultural institutions.
D.A.P. is the exclusive North American representative of such major American museum publishers as the Guggenheim Museum; the Aspen Art Museum; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Arts Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others. Some of the independent international publishers represented by D.A.P. include Aperture, Charta, Chris Boot, Damiani, Editorial RM, Exact Change, Fuel, Gregory R. Miller & Co., Hatje Cantz, JRP|Ringier, Metropolis Books, NAi, Picturebox, Poligrafa, Turner and Walther König.
We've arrived in Barbados!
It’s official, Pictures from Paradise has been launched in Barbados. On Sunday, July 15th, at the informal contemporary art space, Fresh Milk, which is led by Barbadian artist, Annalee Davis, our latest publication was introduced to a Bajan audience. Facilitated by Annalee, co-editors Melanie Archer and Mariel Brown discussed the book with Aaron Kamugisha and answered questions from the audience.
For the time being, books are available in Barbados from Annalee at Fresh Milk.
R&C's Designer's Blog
Our brilliant designer, Richard Mark Rawlins, shares spreads and images from Pictures from Paradise on his blog. Do have a look here…
Barbados Launch this Sunday!
Don’t forget that we launch Pictures from Paradise at Fresh Milk in St George, Barbados, this Sunday from 5-7pm. Books will be on sale for BB$120 a copy, and Ewan Atkinson and editors Melanie Archer and Mariel Brown will be available to sign copies. We look forward to seeing you there!
Marsha Pearce writes on Pictures from Paradise
Issue Seventeen of the e Mag, Draconian Switch, features a short narrative piece by Marsha Pearce on Robert and Christopher’s most recent publication, Pictures from Paradise. Pearce writes, “… the photographs [in the book] all serve in a way, which allows the prefix “re-” to function as a kind of protagonist of each story. The photographic works reinvent, reinterpret, recontextualise, record, re-envision, reimagine, recreate, recombine, remind, relate, rearrange, re-evaluate, reconsider, rebirth and reveal a complex Caribbean. It is noteworthy that these “re” words not only become evident through a close reading of the book’s photographic presentation but they are actual words that appear again and again in the various artist/photographer statements published in the last section of the book.” Read more at artzpub.com.
We're launching in Barbados!
Robert and Christopher Publishers is delighted to be hosted by Fresh Milk in Barbados to launch Pictures from Paradise, Sunday July 15th from 5-7pm. It will take place at The Milking Parlour Studio, Walkers Dairy, St. George.
Three segments will be held at FRESH MILK VII to celebrate and interrogate the photographic and literary practices in the Caribbean. First, FRESH MILK will officially open the Colleen Lewis Reading Room with a brief ribbon cutting ceremony. This collection holds a wide range of publications concerning the fine and craft arts, theory, fiction, and more. Individuals will have the option to purchase membership or borrow individual books for free.
Secondly, we invite the public to view the photographic exhibition “A Negation of Preconceptions”. On display will be the works of four young Caribbean photographers Mark King (Barbados), Malaika Brooks-Smith-Lowe (Grenada), Rodell Warner and Tracee Chan (Trinidad & Tobago). The exhibition is curated by Natalie McGuire.
Thirdly, Aaron Kamugisha, Lecturer in Cultural Studies at UWI, Cave Hill, will facilitate a conversation between FRESH MILK guests and the editors of Pictures from Paradise.
This free event is open to the public. The book’s editors along with artist Ewan Atkinson will be present to sign copies of the book. Books will be sold at the price of BBD$120. After the opening, the exhibition “A Negation of Preconceptions” will be on view until July 27th, by appointment only.
